Emotion: Topic 5 Senses Create Emotion

By Carly Seyferth

The Senses

• What are senses?– They are part of the human body – They are commonly known as touch, sight,

sound, taste and smell

PART 1

How does sight enhance our personal emotional experience?

SIGHT & EMOTION OF PLACES

• Imagine you are envisioning a specific space… • How do the colors of a space affect your mood?• How are the objects in this space organized

– If they are tightly pressed against each other how would you feel?

– If they is nothing in that space how would you feel?– If they were scattered all about the place, how would

you feel?

• What is the lighting of this space?– How does the lighting make you feel?

• These are just few of the many examples of how sight can affect our feelings about a place

SOUND• What is sound and where do we hear sound?

– Toys, or our favorite things– Movies, radio, TV, music– At home or from our surroundings– Animals

• Sound affects our opinions of what?– Of a place – Of people– Of an experience

• Sound is used to communicate feelings, ideas and expressions

• Imagine this place in your mind… what sounds do you think you would hear?

– Birds?, Water?

• How do these sounds influence your experience if you were at this place?

– Relaxed, happy, calm

• What if this sound occurred when you were at this place?

– How do your feelings change?

• Scared, curious

• Upset?

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• Imagine this place in your mind… what sounds do you think you would hear?

– Laughter, kids running around

• How do you relate to these sounds?

– Excited, happy?

• What if the sounds of thunder or rain occurred when you were at this place?

– How do your ideas about this place change?• I am going to get rained on…

When you hear these sounds, how do you feel?

• What are your favorite sounds?

• Why do these sounds appeal to you?

• How do they make you feel?

• Do they create a sentimental meaning?

Touch• Textures of objects can remind you of childhood memories

– Blankies– Fur– Clothing

• Textures of objects can define how you react to things• Close your eyes.. Imagine you cannot see• Imagine that you only have the capability to feel • How would you react to certain textures?

– Smooth, silky, soft, fluffy?– scaly, slimy, gooey, sticky?– Rough, bumpy, gritty?

• What about temperatures?– Hot?– Cold?

PART 2SOUND IN ART

Sound & Art

• Where can you find sound in art?– Music

– Noise that the art may make when you touch it– Found sound

• How can the sound influence the meaning of the art?– Relaxing– Curious

FOUND SOUND• What is found sound art?

– Are sound generated from hand made or found objects that can be welded, wired, playable forms,

• What can found sound be made of?– Hand made – everyday found objects

• Car or bicycle parts• Kitchen supplies (pots, pans, jars)• Bells• Rubber bands

• Recycled material (pop cans, glass bottles, plastic jugs)

• Are sound generated from hand made or found objects that can be welded, wired, playable forms,

Donald Knaack• Is a contemporary artist that works

with found sound and created HOP (Help Our Planet) program– HOP is an environmental program

that encourages the community and its people to create music by using recycled items

• Commonly known as the “Junkman”

• Plays music on discarded or recycled items

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Donald Knaack• What are some examples of musical

instruments that Donald Knaack made out of found objects?

• Shakers– Plastic toys with buttons inside– A left over bag of oranges with plastic

chess pieces in it– A metal tube with gravel inside, with duct

tape to keep the gravel in

• Chimes– Shafts of golf tubes

– Metal and/or Bamboo ski poles– Spoons– Seashells– Keys

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Supportive Activity

• We just watched a video on Donald Knaack and we learned that instruments can be made out of recycled materials

• I want you all to write at least three everyday things that you can use to create music

• It can be small or big things, plastic or metal, or tin cans, or ANYTHING

• After 5 minutes I will ask that we list at least 10 things as a group on what we can use for our instruments

CHIMES• The greatest development of wind

chimes occurs in east and south Asia• They were used to attract benevolent

spirits• Were later used by farmers and sailors

to predict weather forecasts• Can be created by using string or a

material to suspend objects from another object– CDS– Washers (metal circles)– Spoons– Keys

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DRUMS

• Drums were found in many different cultures around the world

• Some people used drums for war signals, and sticks or stones or hands were used as beaters

• The Native Americans compare the drum to the beating of a human heart, they believed that drums were used to connect ones spirit to the earthstore.drumbum.com

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Rattles

• Rattles are associated with the supernatural

• Slung rattles ( objects that hang from a dancer’s body and bump each other to make a sound) were one of the earliest musical instruments

• Percussion rattles: rattles filled with small objects inside a hollow body

• Maracas• Hosho’s (Maranka gourds filled with

seeds and shook to make noise• You can make your own rattle by

using…• Seeds inside a can• Buttons,

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